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http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Measuring programme of the Federal Republic of Germany in regions of Russia contaminated by the Chernobyl accident - summary of the results of the year 1991

Hille, R.FZJ* ; Heinemann, K.FZJ* ; Hill, P.FZJ*

1992
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek Verlag Jülich

Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/19275

Report No.: Juel-2704

Abstract: From May till October 1991 specialists from the Federal Republic of Germany investigated both the environmental and body burdens due to the accident of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the RSFSR. In the survey an area of approximately 10.000 km$^{2}$ extending from Tula (close to Moscow) up to Slynka at the Byelorussian border and such including regions of low and high contamination levels in the districts of Bzjansk, Kaluga, Orel and Tula has been covered. Seven measuring vans from different German institutions took part in a 3 weeks field study of dose rates and of the burden of environmental samples and foodstuffs. The results agreed fairly well with those obtained by Russian scientists. The body content of radioactive Caesium of close to 160.000 persons has been examined. Upto 7 mobile whole-body counting laboratories have been operational with a total number of 20 counters. Each person examined received an official certificate giving the result of the measurement. Observed activity levels were generally much less and in no case higher than the annual limit of intake acceptable for professional radiation workers. Only for less than 1% of the people examined the results suggest the necessity of a further surveillance by health physicists and physicians similar to the regular medical examination professional radiation workers undergo.

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